Meanwhile, Katniss's support and guidance comes more or less entirely from men: Peeta, Gale, Haymitch, Cinna, Plutarch.
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And this is interesting stuff - what are we being told about the world, about Katniss, how does this reflect Collins' own views? - but it
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@abaddondave ain't feminism. I'm not actually very interested in looking at it in those terms at all. There's no lack of stories like that.
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I'm more interested in the story as a criticism of heroism. Katniss's lack of agency, and the muddiness of her motives, is fascinating.
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She makes two meaningful decisions, one at the very beginning and one at the very end. The rest of the time, she's reacting for survival.
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And we have this wonderful 1st person narrative, and she's profoundly unreliable. Not only does she never understand anyone else's motives,
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she never even understands her *own*. She's so angry, and broken, and (frankly) kinda ignorant, that she makes you work out what's going on
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at every turn. As a YA book, that's awesome. I can just imagine encountering that sort of decoding task as a teenager, and how I'd enjoy it.
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In the end, (spoilers, I guess?) her decision to end up with Peeta is based entirely on exhaustion. It's the perfect ending not because they
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go together, but because it acknowledges the whole truth of the series: that Katniss is broken, and never heals, and no-one gives a damn.
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@abaddondave I mean it straight up says from the beginning that their "romance" is a path of least resistance
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@arthur_affect Yep. The most interesting thing about the love triangle is it just sort of annoys her. And that's as worked up as she gets.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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